Doing all he can to keep the barbershop in business so he can hand it over to his son, Calvin Palmer gets threatened by a new salon that opened right across his street.
Schoolyard jokes about religious faiths, genetic traits, and sexuality which only work if you enjoy laughing at people because they are darker-skinned, or curlier-haired, or perverted, or have emigrated from another continent.
Like going out for a bad meal with a group of people you love being with. You're happy to be in their company; you just wish you didn't leave feeling hungry.